Example sentences of "not really [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Games ’ like Ouija are not really games at all . |
| 2 | Lack of spontaneity suggests a high degree of calculation , looking at a situation as if one was not really part of it . |
| 3 | It 's not really part of Foulness — if you look closely you can see that it 's cut off from Foulness proper by a sort of strait linking the rivers Roach and Crouch . |
| 4 | Though its ruler , Nasr-ed-Din Shah , visited Europe several times from the early 1870s onwards , and also established diplomatic representatives there , until the end of the nineteenth century Persia was not really part of the contemporary world . |
| 5 | Tea , like breakfast , was taken with Nannie when Mademoiselle was on holiday — Nannie was not really Nannie for a great big girl of eight . |
| 6 | They sometimes put these dramatic claims in the form of semantic theories : some of them said that propositions of law are synonymous with predictions of what judges will do , or are only expressions of emotion and so not really propositions at all . |
| 7 | Now , the Romanians are not really masters in their own country . |
| 8 | Even his serve , which he does not really rate as a weapon , could hardly have been faulted . |
| 9 | Oh he 's not really sort of speaking to me . |
| 10 | It 's not really lowland in south of England terms , but the area ca n't be called mountainous . |
| 11 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 12 | An important point to note here is that these were not really arguments against correctionalism as such . |
| 13 | Patients are not merely vulnerable : they or their relatives are not really consumers at all . |
| 14 | But yes I 'm sure you can be a missionary in Harlow and I 'd like to think that maybe I could erm increase that work and maybe have an afternoon a week where I could talk to people about God , but I think there 's not really time in a ten minute surgery slot . |
| 15 | These exceptional cases apart ( and it must be recalled that they are not really examples of the situation under discussion ) , it has been seen that there is no good ground for arguing that the doctor breaches his duty to his patient when respecting the patient 's wishes to be left to die . |
| 16 | While the friend of today may become the foe of tomorrow and the friend of the day after that , there is another fundamental category opposition which lumps friends and foes together as " people like us " in contrast to strangers who are " people not like us " ; indeed they are not really people at all ! |
| 17 | The crying baby is being expressive , although her cries are not really language at all , but instinctive reactions to the environment . |
| 18 | Chains are not really cylinders of uniform diameter and material , and so in longitudinal motion relative to another chain ( as in a crystal ) a combination of oscillation and translation must occur . |
| 19 | Many of the theories that are published are not really theories of psychological processes at all , but are theories of experimental phenomena . |
| 20 | I will extract those to one side and say they not really followers of the hunt , they are probably some weird faction that latch onto these type of things during erm these issues . |
| 21 | There 's not really wildlife in it 's just a back grass area ! |
| 22 | This means that , strictly speaking , so-called outer perception is not really perception at all . |